Holiday Treats #2551
. . . a bounty of splendid musical gifts for organs and choirs to enhance the season of Good Tidings.
Hour 1
TRADITIONAL (arr. Fox + MYRON ROBERTS): 2 Carols (The First Noel & God rest ye merry, gentlemen) --Virgil Fox (1965 Möller/St. Paul the Apostle Church, New York, NY) Bainbridge 2505
BOB CHILCOT: Mid-winter & The night he was born. ANDREW CARTER: Make we merry –Cathedral Choir/Scott Farrell; Samuel Rathborne (1905 Walker-1989 Mander/Rochester Cathedral, England) Regent 379
ANDREW AGER: Kyrie & Gloria, fr Missa Campanella –Cathedral Choir/Maxine Thévenot; Stephen Tharp (2002 Reuter/Cathedral of St. John, Albuquerque, NM) Raven 926
JOSEPH CULLEN: In excelsis Gloria –Schola Cantorum of Dean Close Preparatory School/Simon Bell; Carlton Etherington (1997 Jones/Tewkesbury Abbey, England) Regent 440
J. S. BACH: In dulci jubilo, BWV 729. MARCEL DUPRE: In dulci jubilo, Op. 28, no. 41 –Keith Thompson (1926 Skinner/Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA) PD Archive (r. 12/23/01)
LOUIS CLAUDE D’AQUIN: Noel No. 10 in G –Leonardo Ciampa (1859 Hook/1st Baptist Church, Jamaica Plain, MA) AFKA 428
DANIEL PINKHAM: Christmas Cantata –Dale Warland Singers/Dale Warland; Festival Brass; John Ferguson (1964 Holtkamp/Westwood Lutheran Church, Saint Louis Park, MN) Gothic 49317
Filler – CHILCOTT: The night he was born (see above)
Hour 2
LEROY ANDERSON: Sleigh Ride –Nathan Avakian (Wurlitzer/Sanfilippo Place de la Musique, Barrington, IL) Avakian Music 2024
GEORGE MALCOLM: Missa ad Praesepe –Abbey Choir/Philip Arkwright; Matthew Searles (2019 Ruffatti/Buckfast Abbey, England) Ad Fontes 05
FRANCIS ROUTH: Allegro Jubilante (iii. In dulci jubilo), fr The Manger Throne –Christopher Bowers-Broadbent (1962 Harrison/Coventry Cathedral, England) Redcliffe Recordings 012
JOHN BARR: Meditation on I wonder as I wander. ROBERT ELMORE: The Night of the Star –Robert Plimpton (1915 Austin/Spreckels Pavillion, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA) Spreckels Organ Society 05
ARNOLD BAX: Christmas Eve –London Philharmonic/Bryden Thomson; Malcolm Hicks (1906 Harrison/All Saints Church, Tooting, London, England) Chandos 9168
Filler - TRADITIONAL: The First Noel (see above)
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